Mamang Dai: The Voice of the Unheard

India is a rich and diverse land where people from different regions, religions, communities, cultures, and traditions live together peacefully and harmoniously. However, a segment of the population that feels outcasted and neglected, that is the Northeast. People of the Northeast are the residents of the mountains and they find themselves neglected by the people of the rest of India. The problem does not only end here. It stretches further by the continuous governmental intervention into the life of the masses which makes them feel clutched as they lack basic freedom. Normalcy is lacking due to the various laws and restrictions. All these things together form a situation of fear, grief, pain, and most uncertainty of life. Writers from the Northeast have tried to address these issues and bring them out through their writings. One of these writers is Mamang Dai. Her poems have a strong connection with nature, but are not only about nature. They seem simple but a deep reading highlights the hidden nuances that speak volumes about the disrupted and disturbed state of people in the Northeast. In this paper, I have tried to highlight the details and the various hidden nuances that deserve to be studied intensely in Dai’s poems. This paper looks at Dai’s poems from different angles and dimensions without limiting them to any perspective or area of thought.